Wheat — Yield in Denmark
Denmark: Wheat — Yield was 7,040 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Denmark, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Denmark stood at 7,040 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 3.2% on the previous year and down 9.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Denmark peaked at 8,376 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 3,670 kg/ha, in 1963.
Denmark ranks 8th of 133 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,307 kg/ha | 3,670 kg/ha | 4,814 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,893 kg/ha | 4,394 kg/ha | 5,350 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,239 kg/ha | 4,684 kg/ha | 7,323 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,013 kg/ha | 6,151 kg/ha | 7,563 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,278 kg/ha | 6,561 kg/ha | 8,037 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,320 kg/ha | 6,162 kg/ha | 8,241 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,663 kg/ha | 7,040 kg/ha | 8,376 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Denmark
- Agriculture share gdp 1.17 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.17 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
- Rural population 11.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 670,272 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.41 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Denmark?
- Wheat — yield in Denmark was 7,040 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Denmark?
- The highest recorded value was 8,376 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Denmark?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,670 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Denmark rank for wheat — yield?
- Denmark ranks 8th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Denmark?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Denmark data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Wheat — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.